Christopher D. Lynn

Biography

Christopher D. Lynn, is professor belongs to anthropology department from the college of arts and sciences.

Research Interest

He was interested in focused attention and its relationship to self concept, theory of mind, stress and immune response, cooperation, and cognitive evolution. My work often discusses focused attention using the related terms absorption, dissociation, or trance. This work has taken me from churches and campfires to tattoo studios and pick-up spots. I include students as collaborators on all my research, which you can learn more about on the page about my lab, the Human Behavioral Ecology Research Group (HBERG). We are always looking for good students to join us. My training is in biological anthropology, but my orientation is as a biocultural medical anthropologist and human behavioral ecologist. I teach courses in biological anthropology, human sexuality, evolutionary studies, neuroanthropology, and primatology, and more. I am also a big advocate of interdisciplinary training at all levels, including a strong foundation in science. I direct the Evolutionary Studies minor at UA, supervise four-field service-learning courses in anthropology in our local elementary and middle schools, and collaborate with colleagues internationally to seed and promote interdisciplinary evolutionary studies.